Topic: wasp traps?

[artichoke]

Have just volunteered a wasp trap to bakery next door, where customers and staff are fighting a cloud of them - they are all over the cupcakes and sticky buns (7 to a bun!) in a very unhygienic looking way.

I cut the top off a plastic bottle, inverted it to make a funnel to guide wasps in but stop them getting out again, and put a couple of inches of sugary water, slices of lemon and some honey inside. So far they have taken no notice of it, seeming to prefer the cupcakes.

Any better ideas?

[Nigel B]

As kids, granny always used watered-down jam in its pot with a single small hole in the tin lid for them to climb in.
I'm not sure about the lemon in your mix because I thought they were after the sweet, not the sour, if you know what I mean. Is there anything obvious I'm missing?

You're going to be doing well in any case though, if you can tempt a wasp away from an almost-pure sugar confectionery, with anything short of rotten meat.
That said, I'll bet there is a scent somewhere they simply can'r resist, that isn't just sugar...
Maybe the light from one of those bug-catching, high-energy, zapping machines some shops use...

[claybasket]

Put one of the cupcakes in it